A Polybar module to show unread messages from Gmail.

sudo pip install --upgrade oauth2client google-api-python-client

Font Awesome - for email badge

canberra-gtk-play - for new email sound

You can change the badge or turn off sound, for more info see script arguments

cd ~/.config/polybar
curl -LO https://github.com/vyachkonovalov/polybar-gmail/archive/master.tar.gz
tar zxf master.tar.gz && rm master.tar.gz
mv polybar-gmail-master gmail

and obtain/refresh credentials

~/.config/polybar/gmail/auth.py

[module/gmail]
type = custom/script
exec = ~/.config/polybar/gmail/launch.py -t -e work
tail = true
click-left = xdg-open https://mail.google.com

-p or --prefix - to change email badge, default: 

-c or --color - to change new email badge color, default: #e06c75

-ns or --nosound - turn off new email sound

-t or --title - also display title of newest email next to the count

--title-format - when title is enabled, this option specifies its format, %s is then substituted with the e-mail's subject

--title-clip - when specified, title is always clipped to given number of characters

-e or --tenant - specify which credentials file should be used

launch.py --prefix '📧' --color '#be5046' --nosound